LAIE, Hawaii – All is forgiven by Warriors forward Mickael Pietrus. For one season, at least.

Pietrus took part in his first practice of training camp Thursday, then professed nothing but love for the organization that declined to trade him or give him more than the one-year, $3.47 million qualifying offer he signed Monday.

“It was a long summer financially, but it’s always good to see my teammates, see coach, and to be on the floor,” said Pietrus, who set career highs in several categories last season, including points (11.1) and rebounds (4.5) per game, and three-point (38.8 percent) and overall (48.8 percent) shooting.

“I’m still proud of what I did last year to bring the Warriors to the playoffs, and my next step is to take them to maybe a championship. I’m still the same player, and I’m not angry at anybody, at any of the Warriors’ organization. It’s just business. It’s just for me to free my mind and play basketball.”

Said coach Don Nelson: “The prodigal son came home.”

Pietrus’ sentiment was a change from this summer, when he stewed over being caught in the state of free-agent limbo that descended over the league, especially with regard to restricted free agents.

“I really thought they were going to make an offer, because everybody left with a big smile after we beat Dallas and everybody went home, and I was looking forward to (the Warriors) doing the same thing they did for Mike Dunleavy and Troy Murphy,” Pietrus said, speaking of the $44 million and $58 million extensions lavished on those forwards in 2005 and 2004, respectively. “I was looking for that, but it didn’t work.”

Asked if he was open at all to the notion of coming back to the Warriors next summer as an unrestricted free agent, Pietrus said, “I’m free to make any decision I want,” and that he will consider first teams that were interested in acquiring his services via a sign-and-trade deal this summer.

Pietrus admitted that he had been most interested this summer in joining Miami, which lost small forwards Jason Kapono and James Posey through free agency.

“Miami was the best situation for me, in terms of playing time and getting my game better,” Pietrus said. “They really needed a 3, and I really thought things were going to go the way I wanted.”

Pietrus said that he was told by Nelson to expect to take on a bigger role this season in the absence of Jason Richardson, including perhaps initiating the Warriors’ offense more often.

• Matt Barnes sat out the Thursday morning practice with a sore and swollen left foot. The team sent him to Honolulu to take X-rays before the evening session; results were not immediately available.

Barnes said if this was the regular season, he would have played through the pain, but the team is erring on the side of caution since the location of the swelling, directly on the outside edge of the foot, brings up fears of a stress fracture in the making.

“It’s just frustrating, the little stuff that holds you back,” Barnes said.

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